The default LaTeX font is stunningly beautiful! To the point that for me even looking at LaTeX-generated papers in an aesthetic experience.<p>Recently, I was posting a preprint to arXiv. I intentionally removed a journal style, which changed the font to Times New Roman.
An excellent resource. With `fontspec` and `xelatex` or `lualatex`, choosing a font can sometimes be as easy as this:<p><pre><code> \setmainfont{EB Garamond}
\setsansfont{Myriad Pro}
\setmonofont{IBM Plex Mono}
</code></pre>
No additional packages required!
Twenty years ago I did typeset a 440 pages or so book using LaTeX. Sadly the editor wanted a "conventional" look and not the LaTeX one. I ended up using the "Utopia" (it's in the catalogue) font as the main font and sneaked as much "LaTeXism" as I could without getting caught ; )<p>The editor also had zero familiarity with Linux / LaTeX (it was all QuarkXPress back then) and hence wasn't confident in the digital files produced by LaTeX and the converters (say ps2pdf etc.) so in the end a high quality print copy ended being flashed. So it was still a partly "analog" process even though the computer-to-plate age had already started.<p>Good memories.
Unfortunately, no language coverage is listed for any of the fonts: I generally care about fonts I can use both for Serbian (Cyrillic) and English texts, including simultaneously (programming, maths).
I also like this page for latex fonts: <a href="https://r2src.github.io/top10fonts/" rel="nofollow">https://r2src.github.io/top10fonts/</a>
I use roboto light sans serif font for my resume. Are there better alternatives to CM for reading on the screen? I found mlmodern so far to be a good alternative, but would like to know from others as well.
One of the best thing that ever happen to me is learning LaTeX to write my paper..<p>since then, I wrote my resume, cover letter, and everything else with it<p>Results are beautiful and highly customisable